Variation in slip behaviour along megathrusts controlled by multiple physical properties

D Bassett, DJ Shillington, LM Wallace, JL Elliott - Nature Geoscience, 2025‏ - nature.com
Megathrusts, faults at the plate interface in subduction zones, exhibit substantial
spatiotemporal variability in their slip behaviour. Many previous attempts to discern the …

How Subduction Margin Processes and Properties Influence the Hikurangi Subduction Zone

S Henrys, D Bassett, S Ellis, L Wallace… - Annual Review of …, 2025‏ - annualreviews.org
The Hikurangi margin has been an important global focus for subduction zone research for
the last decade. International Ocean Discovery Program drilling and geophysical …

The significance of interseismic vertical land movement at convergent plate boundaries in probabilistic sea‐level projections for AR6 scenarios: The New Zealand …

T Naish, R Levy, I Hamling, S Hreinsdóttir… - Earth's …, 2024‏ - Wiley Online Library
Anticipating and managing the impacts of sea‐level rise for nations astride active tectonic
margins requires understanding of rates of sea surface elevation change in relation to …

Late Holocene coseismic uplift of the Kaikōura coast, New Zealand

A Howell, KJ Clark - Geosphere, 2022‏ - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Abstract The complex 2016 MW 7.8 Kaikōura earthquake ruptured> 20 faults and caused
highly variable uplift and subsidence of an~ 110 km stretch of coastline. The earthquake …

Structural variation along the southern Hikurangi subduction zone, Aotearoa New Zealand, from seismic reflection and retro‐deformation analysis

DE Stevens, LC McNeill, TJ Henstock, PM Barnes… - …, 2024‏ - Wiley Online Library
The southern Hikurangi subduction zone exhibits significant along‐strike variation in
convergence rate and obliquity, sediment thickness and, uniquely, the increasing proximity …

Hikurangi megathrust slip behavior influenced by lateral variability in sediment subduction

AC Gase, NL Bangs, HJA Van Avendonk… - …, 2022‏ - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Subduction megathrusts exhibit a range of slip behaviors spanning from large earthquakes
to aseismic creep, yet what controls spatial variations in the dominant slip mechanism …

[HTML][HTML] Tsunami deposits in tropical regions: A review

O Coca, MT Ramírez-Herrera - Quaternary International, 2024‏ - Elsevier
Tsunami deposits provide evidence of historical and prehistorical events. However, their
preservation in tropical regions is generally poor. The reasons behind this poor preservation …

[HTML][HTML] Integrated onshore–offshore paleoseismic records show multiple slip styles on the plate interface, central Hikurangi subduction margin, Aotearoa New …

CO Pizer, JD Howarth, KJ Clark, AR Orpin… - Quaternary Science …, 2024‏ - Elsevier
Recent subduction earthquakes have shown that weakly-coupled sections of the plate
interface fault may be susceptible to a range of different interface slip styles, meaning that …

Using seafloor geodesy to detect vertical deformation at the Hikurangi subduction zone: Insights from self‐calibrating pressure sensors and ocean general circulation …

K Woods, SC Webb, LM Wallace, Y Ito… - Journal of …, 2022‏ - Wiley Online Library
Seafloor pressure sensor data is emerging as a promising approach to resolve vertical
displacement of the seafloor in the offshore reaches of subduction zones, particularly in …

Causes of permanent vertical deformation at subduction margins: Evidence from late Pleistocene marine terraces of the southern Hikurangi margin, Aotearoa New …

D Ninis, A Howell, T Little, N Litchfield - Frontiers in Earth Science, 2023‏ - frontiersin.org
Theoretical studies of the seismic cycle at convergent plate boundaries anticipate that most
coseismic deformation is recovered, yet significant permanent vertical displacement of the …